The Modern Work Award searches and recognizes organizations and companies that embrace a different way to work together. Winning the category of “Modern Work Shaper”, SINA is extremely grateful and honored to receive this award. You can watch the entire Award Show 2022, which includes more details about the award, the reasoning behind the Jury […]
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It’s all rubbish: Up-cycling waste into fashionable items
Our Alumni Namujju Juliet and Faith Aweko feature with their respective social enterprises Kimuli Fashionability and Reform Africa in The East African magazine. Described as “fashion creatives”, their journey of transforming waste materials into sustainable fashion is an inspiring tale. They create products such as garments, accessories, coffee tables and other household items. You can read the whole article here http://It’s all rubbish: […]
Applications open for SINA Replication in Zanzibar
SINA (Social Innovation Academy) is awarding fully funded scholarships for young Zanzibari to become FutureShapers and travel to UGANDA in June 2022 to learn how to build a community of people who want to change the world for the better through social entrepreneurship through replication of the SINA model. Are you ready for this adventure? […]
SINA becoming a Community Partner of Impact Hub
Impact Hub is a global network of over 100 spaces in 60 countries for innovation, acceleration and coworking. Impact Hub has invited the first four like-minded organizations to engage in a long-term strategic alliance to build and support entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale. By collaborating we will connect and enable impact makers together and […]
Impact Report 2021
The year 2021 has been a challenging one again but transforming challenges into opportunities has been our slogan and looking back, we have achieved a lot and wish to share this with you in our 2021 Impact Report. We wish to thank all supporters, partners, and SINA members for the incredible support and for enabling […]
Transformation Innovation Hub features on Zimbabwean national TV channel ZBC
The SINA community in the Tongogara refugee camp in Zimbabwe was featured on the national TV for its innovative and creative plastic bottle house. Evode Hakizimana, the co-founder of Transformation Innovation Hub, explains why “waste is not waste until you waste it”. Together with other young people in the camp, they used upcycled plastic bottles […]
Learning by Founding – SINA as a Case Study for Entrepreneurship Education in Refugee Camps
The FII INSTITUTE is a new global non-profit foundation and think Tank to advance Impact on Humanity. this month´s Spotlight Series is on refugees and how refugees can create a future for themselves through entrepreneurship. Titled “Learning by Founding – Social Entrepreneurship Education for Refugees”, the publication sheds light on the global issue and displays […]
Food Forest in SINA Mpigi
In our SINA Mpigi community (called Jangu International) a new project was planed and implemented for a “Food Forest”, which is agroforestry to create biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem for regenerative agriculture. For the kick-off, a big three day event was planned and successfully implemented:
SINA Case Study
Joan, Marjorie and Rebecca are inspiring social entrepreneurs and are changing lives through their innovative products and services. All three are alumni of SINA, the Social Innovation Academy. After Charles Holmes of CE Holmes Consulting had visited SINA in Uganda years ago and reconnected in 2021, he commissioned this Case Study to highlight the impact […]
SINA at the We Make Future Festival (June 2022) in Italy
We Make Future Festival (WMF) is a Digital and Social Innovation Festival from 16th to 18th June 2022 at Rimini Expo Centre in Italy. SINA has been invited and will be represented by Etienne Salborn. WMF has the goal to foster a better Future enhancing digital education and promoting innovation, meanwhile boosting cooperation among social, economical and institutional […]